California's rainy season is here. What does it mean for water supply?
After a dry start to winter, California's rainy season is finally well under way.
After a dry start to winter, California's rainy season is finally well under way.
Environment
Feb 22, 2024
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For the past few weeks, a futuristic-looking contraption has been cruising around, scooping up trash in Huntington Harbor, keeping especially busy as heaps of debris washes down with recent rain storms.
Environment
Feb 20, 2024
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The last round of atmospheric river storms drenched Southern California with historic rainfall, and by one measure, it came close to beating a record for the most rain over a three-day period.
Earth Sciences
Feb 19, 2024
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Charlotte, a rust-colored stingray the size of a serving platter, has spent much of her life gliding around the confines of a storefront aquarium in North Carolina's Appalachian Mountains.
Plants & Animals
Feb 14, 2024
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Government officials whose job it is to clean the nation's worst smog from Southern California's air should be embarrassed. Instead of working together to cut lung-damaging ozone pollution, they are wasting time pointing ...
Environment
Feb 8, 2024
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In a significant move aimed at reducing some of the most harmful types of air pollution in the country, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has set tougher standards for fine particulate matter, or soot, saying they ...
Environment
Feb 8, 2024
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Wildfire smoke. Drought. Brutal heat. Floods. As Californians increasingly feel the health effects of climate change, state leaders are adopting sweeping policies they hope will fend off the worst impacts—and be replicated ...
Environment
Feb 8, 2024
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Researchers at the Statewide California Earthquake Center, or SCEC, are unraveling the mysteries of earthquakes by using physics-based computational models running on high-performance computing systems at the Department of ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 7, 2024
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In December 1861, intense rainfall began pounding central California, thrashing the state for the next 43 days. The rain, which scientists now think was caused by atmospheric rivers, killed thousands of people and destroyed ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 6, 2024
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In the several decades since sea otters began to recolonize their former habitat in Elkhorn Slough, a salt marsh-dominated coastal estuary in central California, remarkable changes have occurred in the landscape.
Plants & Animals
Jan 31, 2024
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